Kids & Parents
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Children’s Safety Program
This weekend, Santa Barbara’s Martial Arts Family Fitness (MAFF) will be a stop on the “Operation KidSafe National Safety Tour,” which travels around the U.S. offering a free digital fingerprinting and photo safety program. Read story.
Parents: Baby Films
If you thought playing Mozart, reading books, or having a chat with an unborn baby was a silly waste of time, you might want to change your thinking. Read story.
Teach Your Children Well
Bring the kiddies to an interactive reading of A Clean Sky: The Global Warming Story, with special guest Mayor Marty Blum on hand to help out. Read story.
Goodies from the Garden
At Vieja Valley Elementary School, children are learning that sometimes the best things in life do grow on trees. Read story.
Art Adventures Come Alive
Camp Lorr Art Adventures will open its Spring Art Camp in conjunction with Arts Alive! on Monday, March 24. Read story.
Happy Birthday Twelve35 Teen Center!
The Twelve35 Teen Center, with its snack bar and arcade, dance, journalism, and art classes, and recording studio has been serving teenagers in our community in a positive way for one whole year. Read story.
Hear Our Hearts Calling
Did you know that a blue whale’s heart is the size of a Volkswagen Beetle, and that its heartbeat can be heard two miles away? Read story.
Money Help
As any parent of a college-aged kid, or those of us who have had to go it alone, can attest, trying to figure out how to pay for higher education can be a nightmare. Read story.
Rockin’ Good Cause
Rock & Roll Academy of Santa Barbara
Thanks to S.B. mom Shellie Wilkinson, mini Mick Jaggers and junior Joan Jetts can amp up their afternoons at Santa Barbara’s very own school of rock. But, as the school gets geared up for its upcoming winter semester, a lack of funding threatens to pull the plug on the new nonprofit. Read story.
How Nature Nurtures Children
Call of the Wild
Two books have recently given voice to some of my unspoken, but deeply felt beliefs about how we are shaped by our environment from the earliest moments of our lives. The nature-versus-nurture debate has continued to ride a see-saw of academic research into every facet of children’s early education and home circumstance. Read story.
Adult Ed Woodworking Classes Create Toys for Kids
Santa’s Satellite Workshop
Elves might not be able to handle the noise and the dust, but it’s Santa Central all year in Room 10 at the Wake Center. Six hundred toys are turned out in this mini factory that’s a class in woodworking on Tuesdays from 9 a.m. to noon. Read story.
Dad Combines Love of Reading, Parenting, and Sports
Garcia’s Homer
Imagine a moment of low-grade, but daily, agony. It is time to put your child to bed. This is supposed to be a moment to bond, a moment to read a story, to support future literacy and your relationship. You believe in all that. Read story.
Kiddie Art
Kids Draw Architecture is an annual exhibit that matches professional architects with the community’s youth to create inspirational (and adorable) drawings of S.B. landmarks. Read story.
All Dolled Up
Girls Inc. of Greater Santa Barbara has invited Santa Barbara’s finest artists and celebrities to create their own versions of one of the world’s most treasured symbols of girls’ childhood: the doll. Drawing from Girls Inc.’s motto — “inspiring all girls to be strong, smart, and bold” — these artists were invited to offer their unique interpretations of “strong, smart, and bold” in the form of a one-of-a-kind art doll. Read story.
Playing the Race Card
A Former Teacher Ponders What Really Makes Kids Achieve in School
These are not just economic achievement gaps,” said California’s schools czar Jack O’Connell last August. “These are racial achievement gaps.” With this controversial statement, the California Superintendent of Schools presented public school students’ standardized test results. As usual, there were distinct differences between the scores earned by various ethnic groups, with Asians scoring very high, whites trailing them, and Hispanics and blacks bringing up the rear. Does that mean race plays a role in school success? A former teacher ponders what really makes kids achieve. Read story.
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